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A simple on-line bin-packing algorithm
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Volume 32 ,  Issue 3  (July 1985) table of contents
Pages: 562 - 572  
Year of Publication: 1985
ISSN:0004-5411
Authors
C. C. Lee  Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
D. T. Lee  Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

The one-dimensional on-line bin-packing problem is considered, A simple O(1)-space and O(n)-time algorithm, called HARMONICM, is presented. It is shown that this algorithm can achieve a worst-case performance ratio of less than 1.692, which is better than that of the O(n)-space and O(n log n)-time algorithm FIRST FIT. Also shown is that 1.691 … is a lower bound for all 0(1)-space on-line bin-packing algorithms. Finally a revised version of HARMONICM , an O(n)-space and O(n)- time algorithm, is presented and is shown to have a worst-case performance ratio of less than 1.636.d


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